Slender-legged tree frogs

Osteocephalus is a group of frogs.  In English, they are named the slender-legged tree frogs. They are a genus in the family Hylidae. They live in the Guianas, the Amazon Basin, Venezuela, Colombia, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. Male frogs have warty, bumpy skin, and female frogs have smooth skin.

Species
There are 25 species in Osteocephalus:
 O. alboguttatus  
 O. buckleyi  — Buckley's slender-legged tree frog
 O. cabrerai 
 O. camufatus  
 O. cannatellai  
 O. carri  
 O. castaneicola  
 O. deridens  
 O. duellmani  
 O. festae  
 O. fuscifacies 
 O. helenae 
 O. heyeri  
 O. leoniae  
 O. leprieurii  — Cayenne slender-legged tree frog 
 O. mimeticus 
 O. mutabor  
 O. oophagus 
 O. planiceps 
 O. sangay  — Sangay casqued tree frog
 O. subtilis  — Brazilian slender-legged tree frog
 O. taurinus  — Manaus slender-legged tree frog
 O. vasquezi  
 O. verruciger  — Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
 O. vilarsi 
O. yasuni 

References

  (1995a): Description of a central Amazonian and Guianan tree frog, genus Osteocephalus (Anura, Hylidae), with oophagous tadpoles. - Alytes, Paris 13(1), pp. [1-13]
  (2000): Two new species of hylid frogs, genus Osteocephalus, from Amazonian Ecuador. - Amphibia-Reptilia 21(3), pp. [327-340]
  (2002): A new species of Osteocephalus from Ecuador and a redescription of O. leprieurii (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) (Anura: Hylidae). - Amphibia-Reptilia 23(1), pp. [21-46]
Jungfer, K.-H., J. Faivovich, J.M. Padial, S. Castroviejo-Fisher, M. Lyra, B. Von Muller Berneck, P. Iglesias, P.J.R. Kok, R.D. MacCulloch, M.T. Rodrigues, V.K. Verdade, C.P. Torres Gastello, J.C. Chaparro, P.H. Valdujo, S. Reichle, J. Moravec, V. Gvoždík, G. Gagliardi-Urrutia, R. Ernst, I. De la Riva, D.B. Means, A.P. Lima, J.C. Señaris, W.C. Wheeler and C.F.B. Haddad. (2013). Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteocephalus) an Amazonian puzzle. Zoologica Scripta 42: 351–380.

Other websites
 . 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Osteocephalus. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008). 
  [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Osteocephalus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008). 
  taxon Osteocephalus at http://www.eol.org.
  Taxon Osteocephalus at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
  Taxon Osteocephalus at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

Category:Frogs of South America